Abstract

Despite growing rapidly, but Islamic cooperatives are still experiencing many obstacles in its development, both from the internal, external and regulatory side. This study attempts to identify the factors of needs, activities, and objectives in the development of sharia cooperatives in Indonesia, using the Interpretative Structural Modelling (ISM) approach. The results of this study provide some conclusions include: (1) Elements of the needs of the key key in sharia cooperative development strategy in Indonesia to improve SMEs is the need for strong support on the legal aspects of sharia cooperatives, (2) Elements of activities that are key to Shariah cooperative development are to conduct training and certification programs for shariah cooperative management and members, and (3) Elements of actors/institutions that are key in sharia cooperative development strategy in Indonesia to improve UMKM is sharia financial institution.